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curios

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Registered: 2013-12-30

Posts: 4

pulseaudio-xen

Does anyone know how to enable/configure the new pulseaudio-xen package?

I'm interested in having one of my pv arch domains take control of the hardware audio device. Is that was this is for?

Thanks

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: pulseaudio-xen

Don't use xen so no specifics sorry, some general notes:

Seems to be a device driver: http://fossies.org/dox/pulseaudio-6.0/m … nc-members therefore general notes as described in: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar … /#index1h2 should be what you have to use, e.g.

load-module module-xenpv-sink sink_name="MyXenSink" format=s16 rate=44100 channels=2 channel_map=left, right #Those are the defaults, adjust accordingly

And fyi, the module seems to be available since 2011, it isn't new, it has just been made optional in arch, that's what the split was for (there's nothing new in terms of featureset).

curios

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Registered: 2013-12-30

Posts: 4

Re: pulseaudio-xen

Hey thanks for the reply, that was a huge help, honestly.

Apparently this module works using xenstore, so now I'm getting errors like "xs_open: permission denied" and "xs_domain_open failed" which I assume means I don't have xenstore properly configured/installed. Unfortunately it seems to be citrix proprietary(?) software so I'm having difficultly finding proper guides.